Team Players
The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build a Winning Team
$62.53
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2025
Summary
A New York Times-bestselling author shows you how to build the most successful team
The conventional wisdom is wrong about how great teams are built. Great teams worry less about cohesion and more about assembling the right group of people with complementary talents and personalities. No amount of teambuilding, trust, or cohesion can overcome having the wrong mix of people in the room.
In Team Players, Mark Murphy argues that the best teams contain an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781541705975 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1541705971 |
| Author: | Mark Murphy |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Imprint: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 154mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
“Team Players is an important book that shows us a team needs more than just strong leaders–it needs the right mix of five roles and talents to succeed. Mark Murphy helps leaders discover their style and the complementary roles they need to build winning and successful teams.”
–Ken Hicks, president and CEO, PetSmart
“Mark Murphy’s Team Players is a must-read for everyone who needs to make things happen with a team or group. After 35 years as a CEO, I’ve always believed in the power of teamwork–but had I possessed Murphy’s research and insights earlier in my career, I know I would have built even more effective and successful teams.”
–Robert Rosenberg, retired CEO, Dunkin’ Donuts; author of Around the Corner to Around the World
“No one has more experience with teams than Mark Murphy. His five-player team model allows you to quickly diagnose when and why a team is failing and provides actionable advice for successfully leading teams. This is incredibly well-written, and I couldn’t stop reading!”
–Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius
About The Author
Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy is the New York Times bestselling author of Hundred Percenters, Senior Contributor to Forbes, and Founder of Leadership IQ, a research and training firm. Ranked as one of the Top 30 leadership gurus in the world, he is also the author of Hiring for Attitude. He lives in Roswell, Georgia.
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